Strauss Kahn maid: ‘I weep every day’

The former hotel maid whose name is now known throughout the world stood on a small square platform in the lobby of a vast evangelical church, surrounded on all sides by men: her lawyer, church reverends, prominent black activists — a collection of charismatic speakers in a charismatic city.

She was introduced with soaring rhetoric by the Rev Dr Alfonso Bernard who said she had suffered a terrible assault and would now speak for victims of rape and abuse everywhere.

Her voice quivered. “My name is Nafissatou Diallo,” she said and stopped and stared at the ranks of the international press.

Ms Diallo had appeared on television earlier in the week, describing in detail the alleged attempted rape that she claims to have suffered at…